Farewell to a great! Pele , the Brazilian soccer player who was three times world champion, shook the headlines this Thursday, December 29, when his death was confirmed after several months of fighting colon cancer. His relatives and close friends were by his side supporting him in the most difficult moments. The unfortunate news brought up one of the most famous romances that the soccer player lived next to the child singer Xuxa, with whom he lived innumerable controversies.
In this note, find out what happened between the two and why they ended the relationship.
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How did Pele and Xuxa meet?
According to her autobiographical book, Xuxa was only 17 years old when she joined her life with the soccer star Pelé, who had already turned 40, had married and had three children. Both were the target of criticism in the old Brazilian society, which had a harsh opinion about this controversial romance. .
Some criticized the age difference, others assumed that the model’s family would disapprove of the relationship with the athlete, and others even said that she was seeking to benefit from the fame that Pelé had already sown several decades ago.
The romance that Xuxa and Pelé lived lasted 6 years. Photo: Time
The two met in 1980. “During a rehearsal for a magazine cover. There were four models, Luiza, Marcia Brito, me, and there was supposed to be a black woman, but he didn’t want to. At that time they named Miss Brazil, who came from Brasilia. In the photo, I came out in front of him,” said the dancer. She added: “He invited me to dinner, I told him that he couldn’t because he lived far away and that he was a minor. So he called my house and my father hung up thinking it was a joke, but then he ended up accepting.
Xuxa and Pelé posed for a photograph from yesteryear: Photo: Manchete Magazine
Xuxa fell madly in love with Pelé
During an interview for the “Sabrina Program”, the actress revealed how in love she was with the star player from Brazil: “At that moment, when I met him, I thought he was unique and that it would be a love for life. It was between my 17 and my 23 years when I fell in love with him and I cannot say that he was a person that I did not love and that he was not important. When I met Pelé, everyone who was with me was like ‘wow, how are you in love with him?’”
Xuxa and Pelé met when she was a minor. Photo: The Time
However, Xuxa reached a point where she realized that this relationship was very different from real love. In her book “Memories of Her”, she recounted an old memory of her with Pelé: “We were invited to all the events, but now I have very mixed feelings. For everyone he was Pelé, but for me he was Dico, the one who played buraco with my mom. I was very young, without any experience, and what he told me I took as the absolute truth. He naturalized his betrayals until there came a time when I couldn’t stand it. Our relationship had no future. For me we were dating and for him it was a colorful friendship.”
Why did Pelé and Xuxa end their romance?
Time passed and Xuxa’s career was on the rise. The actress also had countless contracts in New York and on weekends she recorded on a TV program called Club del Niño on the Red Manchete chain. However, when she was given the choice between modeling catwalks or television, she preferred to continue recording for the children’s program from Monday to Saturday. This further distanced her from her beloved.
However, she indicated that the reason her romance with Pelé cooled down was his countless infidelities: “I had my first relationship, which lasted six years, and I have been continuously betrayed. When she looked at him, in her mouth she had lipstick that wasn’t mine. That was normal for him. He once told me: ‘It’s the women who want to be with Pele’. By the time I turned 23 (when she broke up), my life was changing a lot.”
Xuxa and Pelé ended their romance due to infidelity, she said. Photo: The Universal
Pelé’s version of his estrangement with Xuxa
On the other hand, Pelé also made his part of the story known, describing Xuxa as “the first serial relationship I had after my separation from Rose.” “When I met her, she was 15 years old, she was a virgin and she had a little boyfriend with whom she had a fight. Her father gave me permission and we went out together. I didn’t like virgins so I told her to solve the problem with her little boyfriend. After that we went out often. At that time, she was starting her activities on TV and she wanted to have children, but I had three and had just separated from my wife, so we did not agree. Thus, the relationship cooled down, although we remained very good friends.
Pelé told why he separated from Xuxa. Photo: Manchete Magazine
Xuxa reveals which part of Pele’s body she disliked
In the stories that he captured in “Memories”, Xuxa revealed a very controversial detail about Pele . The cheerleader did not like the smell emanating from the soccer player when he sweated, describing it as “really unbearable” and his feet: “I can talk about him because he knows I always talk about this, it was the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen in my life” .
